Grant Moore
Section Head Toxicology
Canterbury Health Labs,
PO Box 151, Christchurch 8014
grant.moore@cdhb.govt.nz
(P27, Thursday 27, Ilott Theatre, 2.00)
9. POCT devices iScreen One step drug card Inverness Medical Sure Step6 Panel cassette Thermo Fisher Scientific Micro Tox Multi Drug Screening Test Branan QuickTox Bio-Rad Tox/See
The material was manufactured by Australian Scientific Enterprises as Human urine specimens 6 linear concentration levels – a low and a high pool with 4 intermediate levels In setting the specifications for all the drugs we used the AS/NZS:4308 standard cut-off limits to offer a range of concentrations from 0ug/L through to significantly above the cut-off value for each drug This year and again in 2011 laboratories can purchase either a 1ml or 10ml vial depending on the sample volume required for analysis The program consists of a single 12 month cycle January through to December and 1 sample per month The program has a specifically designed report for each participant to evaluate their results according to the cut-offs for their device The target values for each drug for every concentration level were set using the standard QAP target setting statistical system suing GCMS and LCMSMS methods